The Pyongyang Institute of Healthcare Sciences (PIHS) is the latest innovative program the ISR Foundation has launched to provide sustainable training program to healthcare proessionals of Tuberculosis and Hepatitis in DPRK, in collaboration with UNICEF, World Health Organization and leading health NGOs in North America and Europe.

The success of this pilot healthcare program (2019 - 2020) relies on sustaining provision of essential medicine to treat patients with typical TB, multi-drug resistant TB and pediatric TB, respectively, in addition to competent clinical teaching faculty who are capable of addressing TB, hepatitis and other infectious disease. Given the importance of cross-cutting collaboration to address the epidemic impact of TB and hepatitis, interdisciplinary teams across the Atlantic and the Pacific focus on raising human and financial resources to tackle multidrug-resistant TB and pediatric TB, the two areas UNICEF and WHO assessed as the most critical gap to fill in.